KN@PPSTER

Thursday, June 18, 2026

Well, At Least They Didn't Make Him Do It In A Railroad Car

I wasn't especially surprised when Trump launched his war of naked Hitlerian aggression against Iran.

I wasn't surprised at all when he lost that war.

But I'm at least a little surprised that he agreed to sign the instrument of US surrender in, of all places, Versailles.

Reconsidering Mega

I don't use a lot of cloud storage with sync to a desktop folder (kilobytes, not megabytes, gigabytes, or terabytes), and my preference for what little I do use would be for Proton to get their damn Linux desktop client out already.

I've been using Dropbox for most of my needs in this respect, and I have no real complaints with it, but yesterday I decided to have another look at Mega (not an affiliate link). I had largely written it off years ago because I didn't know if founder Kim Dotcom's legal problems would end with the service (and the data stored on it) disappearing.

At the moment, I'm only using the storage/sync functionality, as I'm quite happy with Proton's VPN and password manager offerings.

So far so good. The only down side I see is that there's one application I use that doesn't offer Mega as a cloud storage option for loading/saving. If I decide I prefer Mega to Dropbox, I guess I'll look for another app.

In theory, Mega offers better encryption than Drobox. That's not a big issue for me as I don't store anything sensitive in the cloud.

Mega also offers a lot more storage than Dropbox -- 20Gb vs. 2Gb -- but like I said, my sync data is measured in kilobytes.

So this note is really for you and about your needs. If you need cloud storage and sync, Mega looks like a pretty good option, and its sync client does run on non-systemd Linux distros like MX Linux.